State Policy Audit - State Policy to Achieve the Dream in Five States

Kevin Dougherty of Teachers College, Columbia University is conducting a national audit of state policies that affect students’ access to and success in community college. The audit will include case studies of the seven Achieving the Dream states and a survey of all 50 states. The first set of reports on the first five Achieving the Dream states is now available. The full report, "State Policy to Achieve the Dream in Five States," provides detailed policy audits of Florida, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia, as well as a chapter and detailed tables providing cross-case analysis of patterns across the five states and recommendations for future state policy. "Five States of Policy" provides a condensed summary of the full report.